With Dolphin 3.0 (downloaded from WW Benchmark) Wind Waker runs at full speed no matter what, and above full speed if I don't limit FPS. I can even set it to 4xIR and it is still full speed. It wouldn't open today for some reason though, so that's why @NV I still haven't posted the benchmark or responded to your question.
With Dolphin 3.5, I play at full speed most of the time at 1.5xIR. I can't go higher. Today when I played it, however, after about 30 minutes of gameplay the FPS randomly dropped significantly, to around 23 FPS, and stayed there for about a minute. I guess this is a bottleneck...? I put EFB to RAM and it made no difference. I find this strange since I'm not limiting FPS and I get such worse results from when I used 3.0.
With Dolphin 3.5 -1xxx (I don't remember, but it is the newest one as of today) I couldn't handle it. The menu screen was fine and so was the opening, but when Link was talking to his sister on the place where she gives him the telescope, it was running at 30%. I got through it and when I walked around it would be super laggy, however it would spIke up to 30 FPS randomly. It would only do this for a few seconds, then go back to extreme lag at 5 FPS. I tried lowering all the settings all the way and still, I had severe lag.
Why such different results? What's wrong?
If it helps I'm running Norton Anti-Virus and Firefox while I play. I haven't updated any graphics drivers or anything like that, but I did update whatever it linked to in the FAQ since I got the xinputthingy.dll is missing error messege.
Please help. I just want reasonable speed on all versions of Dolphin. And I can't use my laptop until tomorrow at 7:15 PM (USA Eastern).
With Dolphin 3.5, I play at full speed most of the time at 1.5xIR. I can't go higher. Today when I played it, however, after about 30 minutes of gameplay the FPS randomly dropped significantly, to around 23 FPS, and stayed there for about a minute. I guess this is a bottleneck...? I put EFB to RAM and it made no difference. I find this strange since I'm not limiting FPS and I get such worse results from when I used 3.0.
With Dolphin 3.5 -1xxx (I don't remember, but it is the newest one as of today) I couldn't handle it. The menu screen was fine and so was the opening, but when Link was talking to his sister on the place where she gives him the telescope, it was running at 30%. I got through it and when I walked around it would be super laggy, however it would spIke up to 30 FPS randomly. It would only do this for a few seconds, then go back to extreme lag at 5 FPS. I tried lowering all the settings all the way and still, I had severe lag.
Why such different results? What's wrong?
If it helps I'm running Norton Anti-Virus and Firefox while I play. I haven't updated any graphics drivers or anything like that, but I did update whatever it linked to in the FAQ since I got the xinputthingy.dll is missing error messege.
Please help. I just want reasonable speed on all versions of Dolphin. And I can't use my laptop until tomorrow at 7:15 PM (USA Eastern).
PC Specs
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1500X 3.5GHz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
RAM: 8GB 2400MHz DDR4
OS: Windows 10 64-Bit
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1500X 3.5GHz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
RAM: 8GB 2400MHz DDR4
OS: Windows 10 64-Bit